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PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, clean, safe, and sustainable water resources and supplies are vital to Collier County's
economy, environment, and its people; and
WHEREAS, Florida's water supplies are finite, while our population and our need for water
resources continue to increase; and water reuse provides a means for conserving and augmenting
Florida's precious water resources;and
WHEREAS, Florida has established the encouragement and promotion of water reuse as state
objectives in Chapters 373 and 403, Florida Statutes, and
WHEREAS, Florida's permitted reuse capacity exceeds 1,7 billion gallons per day (over 67
percent of Florida's total permitted capacity for all domestic wastewater treatment facilities);and
WHEREAS, Florida leads the nation in reusing 725 million gallons of reclaimed water each day to
conserve freshwater supplies and recharge our freshwater resources;and
WHEREAS, the state of Florida has declared the week of May 18- 24, 2015, to be Water Reuse
Week in Florida;and
WHEREAS, Collier County Public Utilities has joined with the state of Florida, the Florida •
Department of Environmental Protection, and the South Florida Water Management District in
encouraging and promoting water reuse and conservation;and
WHEREAS, Collier County's Public Utilities Irrigation Quality(IQ) Water Program is a leader in
the state by treating and returning over 5 billion gallons of IQ Water annually to the community for
beneficial reuse, thereby saving billions of gallons of drinking water from being used for irrigation;and
WHEREAS, Collier County Public Utilities and the South Florida Water Management District are
calling upon each citizen and business to help protect our precious resource by practicing water
conservation and to use reclaimed water in an efficient and effective means.
NOW THEREFORE, be it proclaimed that the Board of County Commissioners of Collier County,
Florida, do hereby designate the week of May 18- 24, 2015, as
WATER REUSE WEEK
DONE AND ORDERED THIS 12th day of May 2015,
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
/ COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
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Tim Nance, Chairman
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